poetry english Flashcards
(25 cards)
THE DAFFODILS, AUTHOR N POEM
By William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
BACK IN THE PLAYGROUND BLUES ATHORD N POEM
Adrian Mitchell
I dreamed I was back in the playground, I was about four feet high
Yes I dreamed I was back in the playground, standing about four feet high
Well the playground was three miles long and the playground was five miles wide
It was broken black tarmac with a high wire fence all around
Broken black dusty tarmac with a high fence running all around
And it had a special name to it, they called it The Killing Ground
Got a mother and a father they're one thousand years away
The rulers of the Killing Ground are coming out to play
Everybody thinking: ‘Who they going to play with today?’
Well you get it for being Jewish And you get it for being black You get it for being chicken And you get it for fighting back You get it for being big and fat Get it for being small Oh those who get it get it and get it For any damn thing at all
Sometimes they take a beetle, tear off its six legs one by one
Beetle on its black back, rocking in the lunchtime sun
But a beetle can’t beg for mercy, a beetle’s not half the fun
I heard a deep voice talking, it had that iceberg sound
‘It prepares them for Life’ - but I have never found
Any place in my life worse than The Killing Ground.
the eagle
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring’d with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
refugees
Refugees
by Brian Bilston
They have no need of our help
So do not tell me
These haggard faces could belong to you or I
Should life have dealt a different hand
We need to see them for who they really are
Chancers and scroungers
Layabouts and loungers
With bombs up their sleeves
Cut-throats and thieves
They are not
Welcome here
We should make them
Go back to where they came from
They cannot
Share our food
Share our homes
Share our countries
Instead let us
Build a wall to keep them out
It is not okay to say
These are people just like us
A place should only belong to those who are born there
Do not be so stupid to think that
The world can be looked at another way
(Now read from bottom to top)
theme of the daffodils/i wandered lonely as a cloud
the uplifting effect of nature
tone of the daffodils/i wandered lonely as a cloud
reflection and ultimately one of happiness
mood of the daffodils/i wandered lonely as a cloud
enthusiastic for nature
techniques used in the daffodils/i wandered lonely as a cloud
metaphors, connotation of sadness, similie
personification, hyperbole
theme of the eagle
the awesome power of nature
tone of the eagle
wonder, awe, admiration
structure of the eagle
shape of the poem, 2 stanzas, 2 tercets (3 line stanza.)
techniques used in the eagle,
alliteration, personification,
theme of back in the playground blues
the main issue many people face during their lives; being tormented by other individuals with unknown motives, in other words, bullying.
tone of back in the playground blues
sad and empathetic
techniques used in back in the playground blues
repetition, personification, hyperbole
3 sound effects in poetry
onomatopoeia, alliteration, assonance
theme of refugees
the main issue many people face during their lives; being tormented by other individuals with unknown motives, in other words, bullying.
tone of refugees
empathy, sorrow, and resilience
techniques of refugees
palindrome poems. You might also know them as reverse poems or mirror poems. These are poems that you can read for meaning in two ways–from top to bottom and then bottom to top.
name other techniques that can be used.
archaic language, sibilance, paradox, enjambment, alliteration
subject of a poem
what the poem is about
theme of a poem
the underlined message
tone of the poem
attitude and feelings of the writer towards the theme
mood of the poem
how the reader feels after reading the poem
